I’ve been playing with the new Soapbox on MSN Video service. It’s pretty cool. I never really got into YouTube but I can see how useful it will be to be able to restrict access to my videos on Soapbox based on my existing Windows Live Messenger contact lists. I’ve uploaded 5 of my Outlook…

Yes, it’s true: tomorrow is Bring YourSELF to Work Day 2006. In case you’re feeling confused because you bring yourself to work most days anyway, take note of that clever capitalisation of the letters S, E, L and F. As the campaign leader says: Nothing should be simpler than being yourself at work and yet…

By our standards it’s quite subtle, but there’s no doubting that Windows Vista is behind this new site at http://www.clearification.com/. If you don’t know Demitri Martin (i.e. you are one of the 95% of human beings living outside of the USA) you may not recognise the voice. But you may still enjoy the humor (i.e….

I stumbled across this helpful article from Connected Home that explains how to secure a wireless network: http://www.connectedhomemag.com/HomeControls/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=49176. The most important thing here is to enable WPA (or WPA2 if you have new hardware). Without this sort of encryption your network will remain as wide open as a crocodile at the dentist.

My former boss, Bruce Lynn, asked me this weekend how he could locate all the large (>200kb) entries in his Outlook calendar so he could delete them to free up some space in his mailstore. He couldn’t figure out how to do this but knew it must be easy. If you find your mailstore is running…

Confused by all this new Windows Live stuff? Yeah, me too. There’s a lot of new gadgetry to get our heads around. I discovered an interesting new site at www.insiderclub.co.uk that aims to shed some light on the matter. Those talking bodies are a bit freaky – anyone who says ‘”click me” is just plain…